- Full Text
- Life is short
Death is sure
Sin is the wound
Christ is the cure.
- Listed on Page Number
- 282
- Sampler Worked By
- Elizabeth Parker Danford
- Date of Sampler
- 1805
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 146
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- No result found. Ubiquitous epitaph, early well known rhyme.
- Notes
- More common use than verse 220.
Earliest example found was the epitaph of Richard Iillidge, d. 1709 as published in Henry, Matthew. An Account of the Life and Death of Lieutenant Illidge…, London, J.Osbourne, 1720. p. 135.
Listed in a collection of epitaphs from a gravestone dated 1763. :
Webb, T. A New Select Collection of Epitaphs… v.1, London S. Bladon, 1775. p.248